Baltika 3 Klassicheskoe (Classic)

With a thick bright head and golden grassy hop flavor, many folks find this beer boring, but I found it to be a great sessions beer. Available in both bottle and can, this beer is really nothing to write home about, but very easy drinkin’.

A 1 pint 9 oz bottle with no date or freshness information on it. The beer poured a pale yellow with a creamy white head that is thick and leaves a lot of lacing. The smell is of a faint malt and cereal smell. A taste of malt and wheat with a faint bitterness of hops. The carbonation is good and the finish is clean.

Pours golden with a medium lasting head. Plenty of carbonation. Sweet straw aroma. Flavor is nearly nonexistent. Some malt and some bitterness. Very dry.

pale golden yellow, with a hoppy nose , light and refreshing mellow tones but too much bitterness in linger for me

A friend and I got together on 1/30/2007 to have a "Salvation" tasting and he brought over a couple bottles of Baltika 3 for us to enjoy with our pizza before the tasting. This was my first exposure to both Baltika and Russian Lagers in general. To be honest, I wasn’t sure what to expect, but overall I was quite pleased with this particular beer. It really hit the spot at the time and complemented the pizza nicely. It pours a pale yellow color with a foamy white head that actually didn’t disappear too quickly and left some light lacing. It had a good amount of carbonation without being over carbonated. The aroma with light malt and delicately sweet like creamed corn or something. The flavor was similar with a modest bitterness toward the finish. This beer was well balanced in flavor as well as mouthfeel. It is a lighter beer, but isn’t compleltely lacking body or some perceptable mouthfeel as an American macro lager would. It was smooth and clean. I enjoyed this introduction to Russian Lagers and I would drink this particular beer again in the future. I will also have to try out the other Baltika beers over time... 16.9 oz bottle (Best before 01.06.06 25KW) from Rob. Thanks Rob. I appreciate it!

It’s kinda sweet and the flavor is so "delicate" you can’t even find it. I told the guy at the liquor store to drop this in favor of the # 8.

light gold with a thick bright white head. moldy apple skin nose. this is horrid. bad pear juice and dirt, glue and rotten wood. horrid tang in the finish. boiled corn taste that is killing everything incredibly rough

Faint hops and corn aroma. Light golden yellow body with decent carbonation, small head, sparse lacing. Flavor is bland, corny grass and alcohol. Palate: There is none. This beer is a classic example of... Whatever :-(